“The Latino/a Sporting History of the Inland Empire” with Dr. José Alamillo

Calling all sports fans! In “The Latino/a Sporting History of the Inland Empire,” Dr. José Alamillo will share the untold stories of Latino and Latina athletes, teams and leagues, and their supporters, who all fought for a more level playing field in the Inland Empire. José M. Alamillo is professor of Chicana/o Studies at California State University, Channel Islands (Camarillo, CA). Dr. Alamillo is an expert on Mexican American cultural history with a focus on labor, immigration, gender, leisure, and sports. He is the author of Making Lemonade out of Lemons: Mexican American Labor and Leisure in a California Town (2006) and co-author of Latinos in U.S. Sport: A History of Isolation, Cultural Identity, and Acceptance (2011), Deportes: The Making of a Sporting Mexican Diaspora (Rutgers University Press, 2020).